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Primary Care III

Code 13626
Year 5
Semester A1
ECTS Credits 10
Workload OT(12H)/PL(64H)/TC(10H)/TP(24H)
Scientific area Community Health
Entry requirements -
Mode of delivery Face-to-face
Work placements Learning held in health centers lasting for 3 weeks
Learning outcomes This UC has the following objectives:
- Allow students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to address the prevalent health problems in General and Family Medicine and its context of practice, in particular cardiovascular, digestive, endocrinological, respiratory and locomotor problems.
- Allow students to acquire the necessary skills to carry out a patient-centered consultation according to the General and Family Medicine Consultation model.
- Allow students to know how to make records in an appointment through the Problem Oriented Medical Record, with appropriate SOAP progressive clinical notes and coding with the ICPC Classification.
- Allow students to acquire communication skills with the person.
- Allow students to come into contact with the concepts of Ethics and Quaternary and Quinquennial Prevention; describe and use knowledge of clinical management of Multimorbidity and Polypharmacotherapy, Person-Centered Medicine and Chronic Pain Therapy.
Syllabus 1. Consultation in a General and Family Medicine environment according to the SOAP method, Complementary Means of Diagnosis and Treatment, Communication and Patient Safety. 2. Cardiovascular, digestive, endocrinological and respiratory diseases within the scope of General and Family Medicine. 3. Pathologies of the locomotor system in the context of General and Family Medicine. 4. Mental Health: Dementias, Depressive Syndromes and Anxiety Disorders in the context of General Practice. 5. Proper management of chronic pain. 6. Person-Centered Medicine. 7. Medical empathy. 8. Multimorbidity and Polypharmacotherapy Management. 9. Ethics and Quaternary and Quinquennial Prevention.
Main Bibliography Paulo Santos, Luiz Santiago e Alberto Hespanhol (coord). Medicina Geral e Familiar. Coimbra:Almedina, 2020.
Nunes JM, Comunicação em Contexto Clínico.
Ramos V, A Consulta em 7 passos.
Gusso G, Lopes JM, Tratado de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, capítulos 189 a 204
Norman AH. O espaço de entrecruzamento das palavras: a relação médico-paciente. Rev Bras Med Fam Comunidade. 2015;10(35):1-3.
Mangin D, Heath I. Multimorbidity and Quaternary Prevention (P4). Rev Bras Med Fam Comunidade. 2015;10(35):1-5.
Pizzanelli M. Overscreening o prevención a escala humana? Tamizaje excesivo. Rev Bras Med Fam Comunidade. 2015;10(35): 1-7.
Applicable norms of the General Directorate of Health.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2022-08-08

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